[Sussex] Thoughts On Contrubuting to the Community

Nicholas Butler nik at reducedhackers.com
Sat Mar 31 22:29:15 UTC 2007


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> So you can legally visit the museum with your noisy kids and check out 
> the cool stuff. But if you don't contribute, well, that museum may not 
> be there next summer when it's a hot day and you need that indoor 
> place to bring the kids. Or it won't have air-conditioning and won't 
> be tolerable in August, so you and they will miss a good place to 
> learn something cool.
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> And receiving a kindness or courtesy from others creates a *social* 
> debt, if not a legal one. If you don't treat such courtesies with 
> respect and return them in kind, or at least pass them along to 
> others, people will waste that much more effort hiring their own 
> movers and tutors and babysitters, instead of having this amazing 
> resource for all.
Ive been drinking a bit this evening so I am going to phrase my whole 
value opinion of those last two paragraphs in a way that sounds way 
funner in my head than in text , but damnit I think thats the whole 
point of this thread. things sound better in our heads and we need to 
give space for everyone to have just that (mis)opportunity. but for the 
above two paragrapgs ;

" I love you man, I do ,  thats so very very cool "






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